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vdogg

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Thu Oct 27, 2016, 01:03 PM Oct 2016

Looking at the latest email dump, There is still nothing there.

Despite the hyperbolic headline, there appears to be nothing improper tied to Bill or Hillary herself.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/aide-running-bill-clinton-wikileaks-dump/story?id=43101628

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Aide Said He Was Running 'Bill Clinton Inc.' in New WikiLeaks Dump
By MARYALICE PARKS RYAN STRUYK
Oct 27, 2016, 11:01 AM ET
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A 12-page memo written by a former aide to President Bill Clinton illustrates how he and other advisers raised millions of dollars for the Clinton Foundation and the Clintons after they left the White House, according to a new batch of emails released by WikiLeaks.

The purported memo from Doug Band details how he and his team locked in lucrative speaking deals for Bill Clinton and how Band leveraged his work at his global consulting firm, Teneo Strategies, to persuade clients to contribute to the Clinton Foundation. Band described his work as running "Bill Clinton Inc."


"We also have solicited and obtained, as appropriate, in-kind services for the president and his family – for personal travel, hospitality, vacation and the like," Band allegedly said in the document.

A Teneo representative told ABC News in a statement, "As the memo demonstrates, Teneo worked to encourage clients, where appropriate, to support the Clinton Foundation because of the good work that it does around the world. It also clearly shows that Teneo never received any financial benefit or benefit of any kind from doing so."

Band, the Clinton Foundation and staffers for Bill Clinton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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The memo appeared to be targeted at informing lawyers and top Clinton advisers about fundraising efforts. In previously released emails, dated just days before this memo, Band expressed concern over the conflated, tangled and confused web of personnel roles and money in the Clinton world, citing, for example, his opinion that Chelsea Clinton was running a business out of the family foundation office. In this memo, he pushed for more clearly defined roles and documents outlining conflicts of interest.

Around the same time, in late 2011 and early 2012, Chelsea Clinton, according to the emails, was complaining and threatening to launch internal investigations after hearing that Teneo employees were making solicitations and invoking her father's name without his approval. This offended Band, and in one email exchange he purportedly called her a "spoiled brat kid."

It seems like this guy had an axe to grind, and was using the Presidents name in some cases without his permission. In kind services going directly to the president are not illegal, nor is soliciting donations to the Clinton Foundation for services rendered. What would be illegal is using funds from the foundation itself on personal items, such as statues, or to settle personal debts. There's only one foundation that has done that...

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Looking at the latest email dump, There is still nothing there. (Original Post) vdogg Oct 2016 OP
Yeah, another big pile of nothing. n/t pnwmom Oct 2016 #1
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